Hi Neil, Afraid I cannot be of help, but I have an Orange M700 WM5 device (HTC Trinity I think) and seem to be having the same problem as you. When I set gearsLocationProviderUrls to null, I get "Error retrieving you location: GPS failed to get a position fix.". When I open up google maps mobile on my phone it has a fix in literally seconds. I've tried altering the software port to a COM as I thought perhaps the GPD1 port alias was throwing it, but no luck.
Richard On Nov 12, 8:08 am, npo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrei, > Yes, I have upgraded to 6, there some forums out there, that put a > good V6 together. > I will downgrade back to the latest published V5 from Mitac and see if > that helps. > > Out of interest do you kknow if there are any plans to deliver gears > on Nokia's S60 platform? > > Thanks > Neil > > On Nov 11, 4:04 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Neil, > > > I finally managed to get a Mitac Mio A170 and I cannot reporoduce the > > problem you are seeing. I did notice however that mine has Windows > > Mobile 5 installed and did not find any updated model that would come > > with Windows Mobile 6: > > >http://www.mio-tech.be/html/uk_en/a701_specifications.htm > > > Did you upgrade the OS yourself? > > > Thanks, > > Andrei > > > On Nov 6, 12:19 pm, npo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the prompt replies guys. > > > > I have tried setting gearsLocationProviderUrls to null, and this does > > > allow the phone to wait for a fix. > > > If I leave the device to switch off backlight and the usual powersave > > > settings, then it never returns a result at all - so there may be a > > > bug that needs looking at there. > > > However if I keep the device alive by tapping the screen at regular > > > intervals, then it does return with an error - "Error retrieving your > > > location: GPS failed to get a position fix" after 5 minutes. > > > When I subsequently try a GPS application (GPSDash2) it connects and > > > gets a fix in under 2 seconds. > > > > Does anyone have a simple Windows Mobile GPS application that uses the > > > Inermediate Driver that might help us diagnose this issue? > > > > Out of interest what development and build environment do you use for > > > the Windows Mobile version of Gears? > > > > Thanks > > > Neil > > > > On Nov 5, 3:33 pm, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Neil, > > > > > Thanks for the report. > > > > > It sounds like you're right that Gears is returning a Cell-ID based > > > > fix. However, note that geolocation.getCurrentPosition() will return > > > > the first available fix. So if the GPS is slow to start up, it's > > > > likely that Gears will return the Cell-ID based fix before the GPS has > > > > acquired a position. > > > > > To confirm that the GPS is working, call getCurrentPosition() with > > > > options.gearsLocationProviderUrls = null and > > > > options.enablehighAccuracy = true. This will prevent Gears from using > > > > any network servers (for Cell-ID based fixes) and instruct it to use > > > > only the GPS. As you point out, if the GPS fails to get a fix, you'll > > > > need to wait at least 5 minutes before Gears times out and returns an > > > > error. > > > > > If you've followed the instructions for setting up the GPS > > > > intermediate driver, Gears should be able to make use of the GPS. > > > > However, we haven't tested on a Mitac Mio A701, so I can't be sure > > > > that there aren't problems particular to this device. The list of > > > > devices we have tested is > > > > athttp://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=105928. > > > > If you continue to have problems, I'll see if I can get hold of a Mio > > > > to test. > > > > > Steve
